From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: overwrite yank Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:52:54 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <873ax2eac9.fsf@debby.local.net> References: <87tzpkm500.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190753468 28521 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2007 20:51:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:51:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 25 22:51:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IaHMt-00030x-Fd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:50:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IaHMq-0000Yl-DV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:50:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IaHMb-0000WB-EP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:50:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IaHMa-0000UL-Au for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IaHMa-0000UC-6X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IaHMZ-0001yM-Lr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:50:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [89.12.120.131] (helo=debby.local.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu8) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML31I-1IaHMX1FO8-0001bu; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:50:33 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by debby.local.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IaHOo-0003Sb-Ua for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:52:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87tzpkm500.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> (Joe Bloggs's message of "Mon\, 24 Sep 2007 16\:56\:31 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/OG/ovGXvbgo8LNO6mgGs2rOqNQOsulW9Onbu WziPD9u3RgARRKNCUqprpOfHHrWdhVRtDFYoI4R/CevBmDD0Mn YPRbajLzQdVn2FC609rq5YIVvInkDxN X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47852 Archived-At: Joe Bloggs writes: > Hi, I'm sure this is really simple, but I can't find the answer > anywhere. How can I overwrite from the copy buffer? I've tried > yanking in overwrite-mode but that doesn't work, it just inserts as > normal, whereas I want to overwrite. Thanks. Please try "delete-selection-mode" but from your description I'm not quite sure that this is what you want. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany